Mountain State

Moun´tain State

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Montana; - a nickname.

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Noun

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Mountain State - a state in east central United States West Virginia, WV U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776 Beckley - a city in southern West Virginia capital of West Virginia, Charleston - state capital of West Virginia in the central part of the state on the Kanawha river Clarksburg - a city in northern West Virginia Fayetteville - a town in central West Virginia on the New River Huntington - a city of western West Virginia on the Ohio river at the mouth of the Kanawha Harper's Ferry, Harpers Ferry - a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there Morgantown - a city in northern West Virginia on the Monongahela river near the Pennsylvania border; site of the University of West Virginia Parkersburg - a city in northwestern West Virginia on the Ohio river Wheeling - a city in the northern panhandle of West Virginia on the Ohio river Alleghenies, Allegheny Mountains - the western part of the Appalachian Mountains; extending from northern Pennsylvania to southwestern Virginia Kanawha, Kanawha River - a tributary of the Ohio River in West Virginia Monongahela, Monongahela River - a river that rises in northern West Virginia and flows north into Pennsylvania where it joins the Allegheny River at Pittsburgh to form the Ohio River Potomac, Potomac River - a river in the east central United States; rises in West Virginia in the Appalachian Mountains and flows eastward, forming the boundary between Maryland and Virginia, to the Chesapeake Bay